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kaedroho
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Posted: 21st Feb 2009 23:19 Edited at: 21st Feb 2009 23:20
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Ill release the "Black Hole" demo if you want. I have that lying around.

[edit] acctually I will, after I did a bit more work though.

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Posted: 21st Feb 2009 23:58
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Terrain positioning is finnished.

Time for Tile Exclusion!

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Tile Exclusion is working!!

It isnt perfectly lined up with the exclusion map yet, so im just going to spend a few minutes making it work.

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 01:49 Edited at: 22nd Feb 2009 01:52
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Exclusion works perfectly now.



Opened paint, Drew a black box, used the spray paint to do lots of dots, Saved, set as the exclusion map and done Its now perfectly mapped onto the terrain. This feature can be used for hiding tiles which are under buildings.


It only needs 1 command to apply it.

'UT_SetTerrainExclusion(terrain,imgnum)'


Im going to add exclusion mapping feature in next. Then im going to do a bug sweep.

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Dude ... this is like, wicked cool. I mean ... I get over 3000 fps on your demo, and I'm so loving it.
Can't wait for an official release.


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Rampage, 3000 fps....!!!

That looks cool Kaedroho keep your imagination flowing, cos it just keeps getting better !

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2 Upcoming demos!!

Black Hole

Tile Exclusion

expect them both within the hour!

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Filefront is all messed up. So im uploading to the forum.

Black hole demo attached

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 14:29
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Exclusion demo attached

Enjoy!

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 15:01 Edited at: 22nd Feb 2009 15:16
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Downloading now!

The black hole demo is slightly odd, it looks like the earth is sliding away below you. There seem to be a few smallish bugs in it as well. Such as if you look at the edge of the black hole (this is more prominent on a large hole) then the culling goes slightly wrong, the section is still on screen but it hides it. (see attached pic)

I havent tried the exclusion demo yet... But good work=)
Edit: Just tried the exclusion demo and thats also pretty cool. That could work for water in some cases as well i think. At the moment it looks slightly odd and shows up the lod , but add some fog and im sure itll look far better and less noticeable changes...
Also, on the inivisible terrain, possibly it could be set to be flat so your not flying along and hit an invisible hil.. =)

Sorry for being nitpicky but it still looks a nice little terrain

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The black hole is only a speed test. There are bugs which will be fixed soon.

I wanted to make something that changed every vertex on the terrain to test the speed.

Im going to make another demo to show how it could be used in a game or an editor.


The "invisible terrain" will stay. As on the heightmap it does say theres a hill there. And some people would like to use a get ground height function without there being any terrain. It will be up to the user to make that flat by either, setting that area of he heightmap to 0 or by using UT_GetPointExcluded(terrain,x#,z#) and using that with your colision system to make it flat.

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 16:21
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Ok, time for environment mapping. This should be quite quick!

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 18:03
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Environment mapping? Sounds like your making a copy of your surrounding area to me...

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 18:06 Edited at: 22nd Feb 2009 18:50
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Environment mapping...

its basically a map with lots of colours on it. Green could be grass, brown could be mud, grey could be tarmac. It will be useful for multitexturing, vegetation, footstep sounds, etc.

just a few commands needed:


UT_SetEnvironmentmap(terrain,imgnum) - applies an environment map to an object


environment=UT_CreateEnvironment(terrain,colour) - creates an environment like grass, mud etc.





environment=UT_GetPointEnvironment(terrain,x#,z#) - gets the environment of a point






Attached is an example environment map (sorry for colour choice).

Green - Grass
Brown - Woods
Grey - Road
Yellow - Concrete (urban area)

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Posted: 22nd Feb 2009 20:37 Edited at: 22nd Feb 2009 20:38
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Environment mapping is working!!

This demo uses an environment map that I made to tell the player what kind of land is under the camera.

Demo attached.


Using this system, you can do footstep sounds, vegetation, multitexturing, etc. Much easier.

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Adding Multitexturing now.

There will be 2 modes

MultiTexturing - Allows you to have lots of different textures. like rock for a rocky part or grass for a grassy part.

Multidetailmapping - Allows you to multitexture with semi transparent images and a base texture. This is better because it allows you to have different shades of grass, rock, mud, etc.

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Hi kaedroho, I enjoy following your your thread! Can you re- upload that 'emapexample.JPG' as 'emapexample.jpg'? The forum wont let me view the uppercase 'JPG' pictures. If not, no worries.

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Its like reading someones diary as they write their ideas down...

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lol im loving the terrain thing he is making. can't wait to test it out as a plugin.
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What exactly would be required ot get this plugin working with Dark GDK? As I imagine that this could proove very handy for C++ users too.

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Posted: 25th Feb 2009 17:00 Edited at: 26th Feb 2009 16:45
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Thanks for the comments

Sorry about I havnt been posting much recently.

Ive solved 2 major crash bugs over the past 2 days.
Im looking into DBPros multitexturing commands.

Wilderbeast, once the plugin is made for DBPro, its really easy to convert it.

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Posted: 26th Feb 2009 18:23 Edited at: 26th Feb 2009 18:45
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Im going to quickly add multitexturing, fix a few bugs, then it can be ported. That should take about 2 weeks, 3 weeks max.

After all that, ill release a demo of the dll.

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i was wondering what advanced physics entitles. cause i was wondering if you are gonna include collision with this. if so could you separate that out for the free one. cause that is the hardest thing for me to do (i can't even figure out sparky's .dll...
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2009 16:40 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2009 16:41
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Advanced Physics is tracking every dynamic object on the map to find which parts of the terrain should activated and which parts should be deactivated. This is another HUGE gain in FPS.

Ill include a Collision example with the release (free and commercial).



Everyone,

I got texture blending working last night. The terrain engine will support infinite detailmaps and pixel perfect static lightmapping (lightmapping which uses textures instead of vertexdata colour; looks alot better)

Its still a bit blocky, so give me a few hours to sort that out.

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Ooooh Sounds like its nearing fruition You deserve what you get for the work youve put into this for everyone =)

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this really is looking amazing. its good here about the collision.

another question popped up. do we import our own landscaped or is there a landscape editor? (like in the pirates of port royal editor)
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@ kaedroho,

This keeps on looking better and better.

Would certainly consider buying the priced version of this...

Whilst you're answering Azunaki's questions, could you confirm whether the actual commands here are going to be dll with ini and help files or simply an included dba? Hoping the former... Presuming the former, given speed.

Also, any chance, by way of an appetizer, you could show us the provisional command list?

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Posted: 4th Mar 2009 16:46 Edited at: 4th Mar 2009 23:10
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Azunaki,

It will support heightmaps, so anything like terrsculpt,terragen,etc will be suported.

Duffer,

It will be a dll + ini + helpfiles.


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"UT_ContinueBuild(object,phyobject,texture)"??
What does that command do? Sounds odd

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That generates a single sector. It requires an object for visuals. An object for physics. (these must be different because of the LOD) and a texture. (this is only needed if your using Texture mode 2).

Example:



This code will build the terrain and also return the progress while doing it.

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@ kaedroho,

Seems like you're almost there with this one? What will the commercial version cost?

release date in view yet?

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Ok, I have finnished most of UberTerrain and ive decided to release a beta of the free version.

Im now converting it into C++. And once thats done, ill release the first beta of the free version. The full version will be tested internally.



We havnt decided a cost, but the release date may be some time next month. But it depends how production goes. Ill aim for the 2nd of april. (last time i released something on the 1st, everyone thought it was an april fools joke!)

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Awesome!

I can see why that might happen

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lol
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Thanks for the comments

Ive just started the help files. They may take a bit of time to develop though. (im making them from line 1 in notepad). As I have Aspergers Syndrome, I have extreamly bad written communication skills so anyone who could spare a few minutes and read through them to find any bad wording then that will be greatly appreaciated .

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i could look through them i guess. (is it more then 2-3 pages...)
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Let me know if you need any help looking through them.

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@ kaedroho,

Count me in - used to work as an editor for a publishers and old habits die hard...

With the command set, is there any way (later, after first release! ) to introduce some commands to change the colour at a particular x#,z# point (in relation to a particular texture level)???

If not, no worries, just a thought...

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Count me in also - I just like reading... =)

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Thanks for the support

Heres current progress on the help files.

http://uberterrain.turbodog.co.uk/Help/index.html

Theres not much to read through yet, but im adding to it all the time.
I know that my design isnt good, but it does the job. And im writing it in notepad, so its difficult to get anything good looking.


Yes, the Realtime Terrain Modification System will support, changing the height, texturing, environment mapping and excluding all in realtime. This feature will be very useful in editors.

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Just set up a download system on one of my websites. Ive uploaded all the demos in rar and zip format:


UberTerrain Demo 4

RAR ZIP


Blendshader Demo

RAR ZIP


Black Hole Demo

RAR ZIP


Exclusion Demo

RAR ZIP


Environment Mapping Demo

RAR ZIP

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@ kaedroho,

Something seems to be corrupted in the above downloads for zip - is it just me?

Checked the website and help and that seems to be perfectly fine so far - clear and straightforward.

Referring back to my last post - any possibility of a command to 'paint' colour to a particular x#, y# on a terrain in future?

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I used IZArc to compress the zips.

Quote: "Referring back to my last post - any possibility of a command to 'paint' colour to a particular x#, y# on a terrain in future?"


Thats the plan

"UT_SetPointColour(terrain,x#,z#,colour)"
This will only work in texmode 0.

texmode 1 you will have to edit the base texture yourself

texmode 2 you will have to use:
"UT_SetPointEnvironment(terrain,x#,z#,environment)" and the correct detail texture will be applied. Then use:
"UT_SetPointColour(terrain,x#,z#,colour)"
To change the base colour

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@ kaedroho,

Top stuff - with any of the loaded in textures, do you have to treat them as rotated 90 or 180degrees?

Referring up to your last response, does that mean that you could say id texmode 2 as grass, that would then select the relevant detail texture and you could then also colour texmode 2 at that x#,z# point? if yes, fantastic...

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Yes, thats right.


Can you guys just look at this:

http://uberterrain.turbodog.co.uk/Help/commands/blank.html

When I fill that with info, will it be enough? or shall I add stuff like Example code with it?

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Looks like a good system. I doubt you need to add examples with every command, just give 2-3 that show how to make a terrain, texture it, whatever else needs explaining.



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Thanks for Replying

Im going to make a few examples anyway to go in the examples section. Ill add links at the bottom of each Command page to example pages which use that function.

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@ kaedroho,

What bmaczero said.... so long as your few code examples cover all the comments and you perhaps stick in a good few rems/explanatory comments in the code that would be fine...

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Thanks Duffer!

I'd like to announce that the full version of UberTerrain will cost £20. I hope that fits into all of your budgets.

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...thats like $25-$30
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